Amid hyperlinks to a light-weight return off the again of his beautiful featherweight title combat loss to the incumbent, Ilia Topuria at UFC 298 earlier this yr, former pound-for-pound primary, Alexander Volkanovski has revealed plans to now await the victor for the Georgian’s combat with former three-time foe, Max Holloway at UFC 308 in October.
Volkanovski, a former undisputed featherweight champion and the present primary ranked divisional contender, has been out of motion since he headlined UFC 298 again in February, struggling a second spherical knockout defeat to the unbeaten, Ilia Topuria in Anaheim, California.
The defeat got here as New South Wales native, Volkanovski’s first on the featherweight restrict — having additionally suffered a previous first spherical high-kick knockout defeat to present light-weight kingpin, Islam Makhachev again in October of final yr at UFC 294 in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Alexander Volkanovski plans to land featherweight title combat subsequent
Nonetheless, amid hyperlinks to a possible transfer to the light-weight restrict and title-eliminator combat towards former 155lbs gold holder, Charles Oliveira, Volkanovski has now confirmed he plans to stay at featherweight, with the hope of touchdown himself an instantaneous title re-run in his return to the Octagon.
“Yeah, for certain (a featherweight title combat subsequent), that’s precisely what’s taking place,” Alexander Volkanovski advised Sky Sports activities New Zealand throughout a latest interview. “I can wait or if I don’t wish to wait I can do one thing else. Or simply wait and the UFC has made it clear and clearly that’s in all probability what I’m gonna do.”
“I may’ve possibly completed a light-weight combat, I believe there’s a whole lot of thrilling fights there, however the UFC aren’t large followers of floating [between divisions], they’d go, ‘Look, you wanna go to light-weight, you’re gonna have to remain there.’” Alexander Volkanovski defined. “After which I would lose that featherweight title shot. It’s solely a few months (wait), I’m certain I’ll be effective.”
